Blue Ridge Community and Technical College

Cisco certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to IT network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them. Cisco currently offers five levels of certification: entry, associate, professional, expert and architect.

Curriculum at Blue Ridge CTC is designed to prepare students for the entry, associate, and professional-level certifications. Several tracks within the curriculum—such as Routing and Switching and Network Security—are available, so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry.

Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

The CCDA validates knowledge required to design a Cisco converged network. With a CCDA certification, students demonstrate the skills required to design routed and switched network infrastructures and services with LAN, WAN, and broadband access for organizations.

The CCDA curriculum includes designing basic campus, data center, security, voice, and wireless networks.

Courses mapped to CCDA certification:

CNET 131 Network Fundamentals
CNET 141 Routing Protocols and Concepts
CNET 231 LAN Switching and Wireless
CNET 241 Accessing the WAN
CNET 252 CCNA Voice
CNET 255 Cisco Certified Design Associate

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

The CCNA credential validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot route and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN.

The CCNA curriculum includes basic mitigation of security threats, introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology, and performance-based skills, as well as the use of these protocols: IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2),VLANs, Ethernet, access control lists (ACLs).

Courses mapped to CCNA certification:

CNET 131 Network Fundamentals
CNET 141 Routing Protocols and Concepts
CNET 231 LAN Switching and Wireless
CNET 241 Accessing the WAN

CCNA: Security

CCNA Security validates associate-level knowledge required to secure Cisco networks, and the skills required to develop a security infrastructure, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks, and mitigate security threats.

The CCNA Security curriculum emphasizes core security technologies, the installation, troubleshooting and monitoring of network devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and devices, and competency in the technologies that Cisco uses in its security structure.

Courses mapped to CCNA: Security certification:

CNET 131 Network Fundamentals
CNET 141 Routing Protocols and Concepts
CNET 231 LAN Switching and Wireless
CNET 241 Accessing the WAN
CNET 250 CCNA Security

CCNA: Voice

CCNA Voice validates associate-level knowledge required to administer a voice network, and the skills necessary for specialized job roles in voice technologies such as voice technologies administrator, voice engineer, and voice manager. It also validates skills in VoIP technologies such as IP PBX, IP telephony, handset, call control, and voicemail solutions.

Courses mapped to CCNA: Voice certification:

CNET 131 Network Fundamentals
CNET 141 Routing Protocols and Concepts
CNET 231 LAN Switching and Wireless
CNET 241 Accessing the WAN
CNET 252 CCNA Voice

CCNA: Wireless

CCNA Wireless validates associate-level knowledge to configure, implement and support wireless LANs, specifically those networks using Cisco equipment. With a CCNA Wireless certification, students can support a basic wireless network on a Cisco WLAN in a SMB to enterprise network.

The CCNA Wireless curriculum includes information and practice activities to prepare students for configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting basic tasks of a Cisco WLAN in SMB and Enterprise networks.

Courses mapped to CCNA: Wireless certification:

CNET 131 Network Fundamentals
CNET 141 Routing Protocols and Concepts
CNET 231 LAN Switching and Wireless
CNET 241 Accessing the WAN
CNET 251 CCNA Wireless

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

The CCNP certification is a professional-level certification that validates the ability to plan, implement, verify and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice, wireless and video solutions.

The CCNP certification is appropriate for those with at least one year of networking experience who are ready to advance their skills and work independently on complex network solutions. Those who achieve CCNP have demonstrated the skills required in enterprise roles such as network technician, support engineer, systems engineer or network engineer.

Courses mapped to CCNP certification:

CNET 265 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks
CNET 266 Implementing Secure Converged Wireless Networks
CNET 267 Building Multilayer Switched Networks
CNET 268 Optimizing Converged Networks